Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opening its seventh season, the Boston Tributary Theatre last night achieved one of the most potent productions of Elizabethan drama seen herabouts in its showing of Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus." Under the direction of Eliot Duvey, a group of relatively unknown players have infinitely outshined the Broadway luminaries of last week's "Duchess of Malfi," and in their organization, point the way for serious theatre groups everywhere...
...play lies in Faustus' remaining in character and using his newly-bought power for intellectual purpose, despite the sensual opportunities offered. For the sake of "theatre," the Tributary group has avoided the aspect of introspection into character, and has played the vehicle for its spectacle. But in Elizabethan drama, interpretations are innumerable, and last night's offering was effectively valid...
...vocal bearing. Richard Kilbride and Harry Cooper, as sixteenth century comedians, were really funny. But the device employed most efficiently by the company was in the lighting, handled by Duvey himself, which served to heighten every moment and provide for the rapid change of scenes so essential to Elizabethan drama...
Author Cecil considers Hardy "the last English writer to be built on the grand Shakespearean scale." Readers, argues Cecil, may be overcritical of Hardy's often cumbersome, melodramatic writing if they fail to grasp that his work was modeled on the Elizabethan drama-on the wild and stormy tragedy of King Lear and The Duchess of Malfi rather than on he carefully constructed novel form of a Tolstoy or a Jane Austen. They may also become impatient with his pessimism if they do not realize that, unlike his great Elizabethan predecessors, Hardy was a reluctant atheist...
...from New Glarus who visited Switzerland during World War II came home with some startling news: nobody seemed to yodel there any more. They also told their elders that the Swiss had been astonished by their talk; in 1946 New Glarus was still using phrases almost as dated as Elizabethan English...